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burninmylight on 16 January 2013
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superchunk said:
green_sky said:
Literally everyone has some sort of device that does multimedia features better than consoles would do in foreseeable future. I don't get this obsession with wanting 10 devices that you can use for Netflix, Facebook and Twitter.

It's nice to have some of those features but people buy the consoles for games.

The general consumer doesnt' get the obsession with it either, which is why the gaming console is the perfect all-in-one device.

Also, no, core gamers buy consoles for games. Everyone else will buy them for their total capability.


My experience with everyone who isn't a "core" or "hardcore" gamer is that they aren't even aware of those extra capabilities. A ton of people who bought the Wii for Wii Sports and other Blue Ocean titles didn't even know it could go online, or whether it could play DVDs, or that it had Netflix, or that they could download virtual console and WiiWare games, or play GameCube games. Heck Nintendo made that dumbed-down red Wii just for those folks.

When my girlfriend bought a 360 for Need For Speed a couple of years ago, she had no idea of all its capabilities; she bought a $400 console just to be able to pay an extra $60 to play one game! Although she took advantage of the media player and the ability to save music to the hard drive, once she tired of NFS, the console just sat and collected dust til she gave it away to her brother. I'm not saying she's representative of every "casual" or "non-core" consumer, but I'd say she falls firmly in line of normal behavior.